I take you through the particular fury of modern travel, the quiet rage my father carried like a second engine, and what my wife accidentally revealed about the distance between the two men. Also: what Enya has to do with any of it.

This week on duwali Bottoms Texas

Three people. Three mornings. One small East Texas town that keeps drawing everybody back whether they mean to come or not. Season Two of Duwali Bottoms Texas is rolling, and the ground is shifting beneath all of it.